Well, luckily for you, over at Amazon, you can get a set of towels that must be made of something unfathomably brilliant, because they've been selling them for $800bn. In sterling, that's around £521bn.

So what's so good about them? Well, Calcot Ltd's towels are woven into "super soft Supima cotton loops using zero-twist technology" and come in one colour - amethyst. They're safe to put in the tumble drier too.

These towels are, apparently, "less prone to pilling", which is obviously a huge concern for all towel users around the world.

The "functional and decorative fold-over edge is added to finish off an already perfect towel", which is just what the world needs now during the economic uncertainty and seemingly near-constant warfare. Of course, you could end all wars or end the economic crisis if you have over £500bn in disposable income, but you're probably after these towels instead.

As you can see, this is one of the longest numbers ever featured on BW.

Of course, this is a fat-fingered mistake from someone, which means that, by the time you hit the link, the price has already been rectified by Amazon, which is nice.

They're still on-sale, and you can see them here and, that said, at the new price... $80 for some stinkin' towels! WHAT AN OUTRAGE!

There's a good chance that this wasn't a typo but rather two or more pricing bots competing with each other with unexpected results. There was a similar instance a few years back with a book being sold for several million dollars.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2384102,00.asp

There was a glitch that affected many sellers a while back, something to do with EU conversion across international sites I think, and it was translating full stops to commas which led to many miss-prices. I myself had a £49 item adjust itself to £49,000 but it was quickly flagged up as a potential misprice by the platform and I corrected it. Anyway, my point is that I suspect something similar happened here with the re-pricing software.
Not really news imo but the reviews are quite funny now though.